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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 2000
Page
8
An 11 year old boy who vanished while riding his bike near his home was found dead in a vacant lot with his naked body mutilated. Coroner Wecht said asphyxiation preceded genital mutilation and described possible ritual characteristics. Police sought FBI profiling assistance.
A second prison guard, Capt. Alfred R. Rowe Jr., was charged with sexual intercourse with an inmate Susan Smith. Investigators say Smith disclosed a July to August encounter at the Women’s Correctional Institution. Rowe, a Corrections Department supervisor about 13 years, faces up to 10 years in prison.
In Bellevue Washington police shot and killed a bank robbery suspect inside the Nordstrom cafe. The man in his early 20s changed clothes in the cafe restroom then sat in the restaurant before fleeing toward a restroom hallway and pulling a pistol. Police returned fire firing four shots. The nearby Bank of America branch had been robbed about an hour earlier.
A man stepping off a Baltimore commuter train was struck and killed by an oncoming train at a marked crossing. Transit spokesman Anthony Brown said the victim did not look both ways. Police did not release the victim’s identity and ruled the operator not at fault.
A Memphis man, James Rinaldo Jackson, 39, pleaded guilty in federal court to using stolen credit card numbers to buy nearly 750000 in diamonds and Rolex watches. He impersonated top executives including Coca Cola Enterprises COO John Alm Lehman Brothers chair Richard Fuld and Wendy's ex-chair Gordon Teter in phone fraud to banks and card firms. The plea calls for up to five years three months in prison.
A national study of 42,862 adults finds those who began drinking before 21 are up to three times more likely to suffer alcohol related injuries such as car crashes, burns, and cuts than those who started at 21 or older. Researchers suggest early drinking lowers fear of injury and increases risk taking.
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